Public Sector Consultancy Activities

LIFE provides research based consultancy service assignments for the public and private sectors within the university’s core academic areas. These services cover climate aspects related to monitoring and policy analysis. The main purpose is to deliver data and a knowledge foundation for strategic and operational decisions within the public and private sectors concerning LIFE's research areas.

 

Specific initiatives include the following:

 

1. LIFE is involved in the preparation and provision of data for the Danish reporting for the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Climate Secretariat. LIFE is responsible for coordinating Danish land-use mapping and all relevant information concerning forestry. The project is performed in close cooperation with other Danish universities for the Ministry of Climate and Energy.
2. LIFE has a unique role as national provider of inventory data for forestry. This includes monitoring of all aspects of forest in relation to climate change - impacts, adaptation and mitigation. The monitoring is conducted for the Ministry of the Environment. The Forest monitoring coupled with the core research areas at LIFE makes this a strong hold in climate research.
3. LIFE also provides strategic research on e.g. bio-energy for the Ministry of Climate and Energy, and on e.g. urban planning and water management in relation to climate change for the Ministry of the Environment.
4. LIFE is also involved in consultancy on city planning as an instrument in avoiding climate change.
5. The European Union’s Climate Action and Renewable Energy Package requires a 20 % reduction in Danish greenhouse gas emissions from sectors not included in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), i.e. transport, housing, agriculture and waste. The Danish Government has initiated a series of investigations to define a coherent policy for the entire non-ETS area. From the outset LIFE has played a central role in these analyses. This work has resulted in the identification of a least-cost set of abatement measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across agricultural activities. Work in this field continues seeking to identify cost efficient implementation instruments to realize the policy objectives. This work is funded by the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Contact: Director Niels Elers Koch ()